Stotham is a fictional town in Massachusetts, United States which was invented by architect (1869-1942) of the firm in an article he wrote for the April 1920 issue (vol. VI, No. 2) of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs as the purported locale of a number of photographs of New England structures which had been edited out of earlier location-specific issues of the bi-monthly series. Ripley's article about the town was printed under an epigram from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,